June Meetup: Semantic Technology Conference recap

Date: Wednesday June 30, 2010
Time: 6:30pm to8:00pm
Location: Texas Coworking - 200 East Sixth Street. Third Floor (corner of 6th and Brazos)
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Come and hear about what happened at the Semantic Technology conference. We will be offering a report of all the announcements, new trends, case studies and any other exciting things that has been presented at the most important semantic conference in the world! You don't want to miss it!

July Meetup with Austin Hadoop User Group

Date: Thursday July 22, 2010
Time: 6:0pm to8:00pm
Location: CoSpace - 911 West Anderson Lane, Austin, TX which is at the confluence of Anderson Lane, Lamar, and 183. They are in Suite 203, which is upstairs, right in the middle of the retail center. Parking is free and there is ample. In back, up front, or even in the covered parking at the East end of the center.
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We'll be having a joint meeting with the Austin Semantic Web Users Group and the topics will cover areas where Big Data and the Semantic Web intersect. Its likely we'll have a slightly larger crowd for this event. Come along and hear about all the interesting work being done around Big Data and the Semantic Web in Austin !

Agenda
6 - 6:20 : Meet and Greet (Beer and Pizza time)
6:20 - 6:40 : Hadoop Summit, BigDataCamp and Semtech Report Back (Steve Watt and Juan Sequeda)
6:40 - 7:20 : "Graph Processing with Pregel"
Zach Richardson (Locus) - will be presenting on Pregel, the new Google Map/Reduce equivalent for Graph Processing.
7:20 - 8:00 : "Extractiv - Entity Extraction at scale"
Shion Deysarkar @shiondev (80legs, Extractiv) - will be demoing the long-awaited Extractiv public beta. This service is similar to OpenCalais in that it provides entity extraction over text, but differs dramatically in that it can use thousands more entity types across millions of web pages. Shion will also be providing some insight into the technology behind Extractiv, which can crunch through thousands of documents in minutes.